Colts hanging tough

[Colts And Orioles]

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The Raiders scored a knockdown of the Colts with a hard body-shot in the 11th round ...... the light-hitting Jaguars put them down-and-out for the count with a left hook in the 12th and final round.

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Their late-season collapse notwithstanding, the 2021 Colts actually did hang tough after starting the season at 1-4 ...... if somebody had told us all that the Colts wound wind up going 8-4 over the final 12 games to finish at 9-8 back in early October, I think that many of us would have been relatively impressed with their ability to win that many games after such an awful start to the season.

When Carson Wentz went down late with 2 badly-injured ankles late in the 4th quarter quarter against the Rams, the Colts were trailing by a score of 27-24. The Colts' defense got the stop that they needed, and with a little over 2 minutes to play they had a chance to either tie the game with a field goal to send it into overtime or win it with a touchdown in regulation. Jacob Eason threw an INT on the Colts' second play from scrimmage, effectively ending the game. Had Wentz not been hurt, he may have led the Colts to either a game-tying field goal or a game-winning touchdown.

Wentz' injury essentially sealed the Colts' fate for their next game as well, as many people correctly presumed that there was almost no way that they would beat the Titans with a severely-hobbled Carson Wentz and/or Jacob Eason taking the snaps from center ...... that loss immediately put the Colts in an 0-3 hole after the first 3 games of the season.


So, I believe that the 2021 Colts did indeed hang tough for the most part ...... they just didn't hang tough enough to be a playoff team, as the 1975 Colts, the 2008 Colts, and the 2018 Colts did after disastrous starts to their respective seasons (the 1975 Colts started the season at 1-4, the 2008 Colts started the season at 3-4, and the 2018 Colts started the season at 1-5.)

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